Truth about service uptime

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 09:51:57AM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> Their worst service was out for six hours in one year.  That sounds
> pretty fantastic to me.
> 
> I remember being taken off-line by a 24 hour power outage to the
> building my webserver was in: not much you can do about that (okay,
> okay, "redundant servers," but maybe your business isn't operating at
> that scale).  That's four times 37signals' worst downtime.  My server
> stayed up for an hour or so on its UPS, but that was pretty
> meaningless because the network was down.

No it isn't 4 times more than their worst downtime.  It is 4 times their
total downtime for one year for their worst service.

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Len Sorensen
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